Retrieves all social tags by the current user on the specified URL using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell

In this blog you will see how to retrieve all social tags by the current user on the specified URL using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell

Steps Involved:

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by going to Start | All Programs | SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Run as Administrator).
2. Run the following script.

Powershell Script:

##Retrieves all social tags by the current user on the specified URL using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell $uri="http://serverName:10736/sites/ECT2/_vti_bin/SocialDataService.asmx?wsdl" ## $url is a string that contains the url for which social tags has to be retrieved [String]$url="http://serverName:10736/sites/ECT/" $credential=Get-Credential ## Web Service Reference - http://Site/_vti_bin/SocialDataService.asmx $socialDataServiceWebServiceReference = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -Credential $credential ## Remove all the colleagues for the specified account name $SocialTagDetail=$socialDataServiceWebServiceReference.GetTags($url) ## $SocialTagDetail is of Type: [SocialDataService Web service].SocialTagDetail() ## [SocialDataService Web service].SocialTagDetail() - Refer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/websvcsocialdataservice.socialtagdetail.aspx $SocialTagDetail